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Two Dapol Gresley teak carriages arrived in the post today, a BCK and TK.They join my Dapol buffet car and two Minitrix corridor thirds with spindly truss rods to form a short set of Gresley corridor teak carriages, all based on preserved examples, but currently in varying states of repair. This is my set if all of them were restored to their original condition, described from top to bottom (none of them have been re-numbered):

haha unfortunatly iv got a problem with the NEM pocket on some of them so i have to try sort that out otherwise they keep uncoupling themselves, they all seem to be different heights, the three new ones are fine but these others, no idea

The Minitrix ones I've owned for years, they turn up from time to time on auction sites.

None of the BCKs (three 3rd class and two 1st class compartments) they modelled survive in preservation. However there's a BCK originally built with two first and two third class compartments under cover on the NYMR converted as a breakdown carriage http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=988which could be converted from the Minitrix version.

I had a problem with some of my Dapol Gresley stock randomly uncoupling. My solution was to swap Rapido couplings for the dummy knuckle type. But it would be better if Dapol could stop making droopy couplings...

the only way i can solve it at the moment is buy glueing two couplers together then putting them in the pockets, but all it means is the train can only more or less go on straightish track as soon as it tries curving anything like two sets of points (NYMR style) they derail so iv got to try keep them on one loop, akward buggers!

i know they arent accurate to what railways have now but im trying to use the dapol ones as a NYMR teak set and i want to use minitrix as a SVR teak set...but like i said SVR are trailing a long way as i only have a break end...oh well if i get an N2 at least it can do a shuttle with 2 dapol teaks included lol